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The Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, is the former villa and estate of businessman James Deering, on Biscayne Bay in the present day Coconut Grove neighbourhood of Miami, Florida.

In 1910, he purchased land for a complex of buildings and gardens in Coconut Grove, south of Miami. He and Paul Chalfin then travelled through Europe purchasing furnishings and architectural elements to be incorporated into Deering's new home, which he named "Vizcaya", the name of a Spanish province rendered in English as "Biscay".

The landscape and architecture were influenced by Veneto and Tuscan Italian Renaissance models and designed in the Mediterranean Revival architecture style, with Baroque elements. F. Burrall Hoffman was the architect, Paul Chalfin was the design director, and Diego Suarez was the landscape architect.

The estate property originally consisted of 180 acres (73 ha) of shoreline Mangrove swamps and dense inland native tropical forests.

Being a conservationist, Deering sited the development of the estate portion along the shore to conserve the forests.

This portion was to include the villa, formal gardens, recreational amenities, expansive lagoon gardens with new islets, and grazing fields, and a village services compound. Deering began construction of Vizcaya in 1912 officially beginning occupancy on Christmas Day 1916

Cathay Room
Paul Chalfin designed this special guest bedroom in a style known as “Chinoiserie”, based on the adaptation of Chinese art by Europeans.

Espagnolette Bedroom
This is the MOST opulent of Viscaya’s guest bedrooms. The name was chosen to recall a style of Spanish dress popularises in France in the 1700s.

Diego Suarez, designed the house's main gardens.
Vizcaya’s European-inspired gardens are among the most elaborate in the United States. Reminiscent of gardens created in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italy and France, the overall landscape design is conceived as a series of rooms.

The gardens today is the most popular wedding photos spot in all Miami. Many Hollywood movies were also filmed here including Marvel’s Iron man 3.

Do note complimentary transport by Brighline is seasonal.

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